Anti-Privacy Database Bill Set to Become Law without Trump Veto
This article written by Dr. Karen Effrem for The National Pulse is an alert regarding a new bill in the House that will invade student’s privacy.
HR 4174, the privacy-crushing de facto national database bill discussed here earlier this week and recently at Townhall, will become law as early as tomorrow, January 12th, without a presidential veto. Economic and privacy experts are gravely concerned about this bill due to its potential to expand the welfare state and planned economy and an increased vulnerability of government data to hacking. This will also affect our children due to the ever-expanding mountain of data collected on them through education technology and state longitudinal databases as well as the weakening of FERPA, the federal privacy law.
Although much is happening with the border crisis and the government shutdown, concerned citizens must keep up the pressure. A new way to raise awareness is to take a few minutes to share these 50 tweetsprovided by our friends at Patriot Journalist to explain how dangerous this data mining legislation really is and then to alert your friends. You may also continue to email the president here. (The White House comment line is not taking calls due to the shutdown.)
Other details are available at these resources:
Rebuttal to House Staff “Myths and Facts” on HR 4174
Summary of HR 4174/S 2046, The Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act
“Parent Activists: Data-Sharing ‘Grinch’ Bill Will Create ‘De Facto National Database’” by Dr. Susan Berry at Breitbart
Radio Interview on FEPA by Dr. Karen Effrem with the American Family Association of Pennsylvania
Radio Interview on HR 4174 by Dr. Mary Byrne with Morning Coffee (Missouri)
Talking Points to Veto FEPA by Dr. Mary Byrne
“Paul Ryan’s Trojan Horse for the Welfare State” by economist Sven Lundgren at AIER explaining how this bill expands the swamp on welfare, health care and other issues
“Privacy-Crushing FEPA Bill #HR4174: 10 Nitty Gritty Facts You Missed #VETO !” by Cristel Swayze at “What is Common Core”
Michelle Malkin on Tucker Carlson Explaining Dangers of Ed Tech in Schools
Please take this stand for your privacy and futures and those of your children! Thank you!
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